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FG Commences Collection Of Income Tax On Bonds, Short-Term Securities From Today - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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This followed the expiration of a 2012 gazette which exempted Companies Income Tax CIT from bonds and short-term securities in the past 10 years.
The federal government had in 2012 granted tax waiver on all bonds and debt instruments issued by all tiers of government and corporate entities.
But the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC had last month introduced a 0.025 per cent charge on fixed income Bonds secondary market transactions, which was expected to become effective today.
Reacting to the development, capital market operators which included the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers CIS and the Association of Securities Dealing Houses of Nigeria ASHON have expressed support for the move by the federal government.
President, Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers CIS, Olatunde Amolegbe said the introduction of the policy by the apex capital regulator would bring significant regulation to the market.

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FG Commences School Feeding Programme On Thursday - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development said it will commence the school feeding programme from Thursday in Abuja.
The ministry also noted that Lagos and Ogun states will commence shortly after Federal Capital Territory before the other states of the federation join.
Despite the closure of schools, President Muhammadu Buhari on March 29th, 2020 directed the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq to liaise with state governments to develop strategies on the continuation of the school feeding programme.
The ministry explained that each household will receive uncooked food items valued at 4, 200 naira.
It said the ration has been assessed and approved by nutrition experts as sufficient for the children.

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FG Commences Training For 1,850 Beneficiaries Of Mobile Money Agents’ Programme - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 22, 2021
In a keynote address at the inauguration and training of beneficiaries in the North Central Zone, in Abuja, Sadiya said the programme was introduced to sustain the social inclusion agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration.
She explained that in view of the life-changing experiences of National Social Investment Programme NSIP beneficiaries, President Buhari had graciously approved the expansion of the programme to include the Mobile Money Agent.
According to her, this was aimed at touching more lives and lifting more Nigerians out of poverty which was in alignment with the President’s vision of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in ten years.

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FG Commends NARD For Suspending 63-Day-Old Strike, Offers N47bn As Hazard Allowance - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 7, 2021
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige gave the commendation when he received the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association NMA, who led NARD’s executive members, on a visit to his office in Abuja.
Ngige, who commended the new NARD leadership led by Godiya Ishaya, for asking its members to return to work, disclosed that the federal government had increased the aggregate money in the 2022 budget for hazard allowance from 40 billion to 47 billion naira annually.
He said the latest strike would not have degenerated to the point it got to, if the former NARD leadership had given their members the correct information.
The minister said that the federal government was not indebted to any doctor up till August 2, when NARD embarked on the strike.

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FG Commends NLNG On New Cooking Gas Policy - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 18, 2022
On January 14, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas said the move is designed to increase Liquefied Gas availability in Nigeria, diversify its use and support the federal government’s Decade of Gas initiative.
The Minister of State for the Environment, Sharon Ikeazor gave the commendation in a statement released by the Ministry’s Director of Press, Saghir el Mohammed.
Ikeazor, said that such a bold initiative was a welcomed development and a step in the right direction that will not only bring down the price of the commodity but also bring relief to our forests and the ecosystems.
The minister recalled that shortly after the increase in the prices of cooking gas in the country, millions of Nigerians could no longer afford the commodity and consequently resorted to firewood and charcoal as alternatives.

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FG Commends SON’s Outstanding Performance As ItMarks 50th Anniversary - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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The minister gave the commendation at the SON 50th anniversary celebration in Abuja.
She said the achievements of the organisation were recently showcased when it was ranked first in the ‘Ease-of-Doing-Business’ by the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council.
She noted that the organisation also recently received an award from the National Information and Technology Development Agency, NITDA, for Ease-of-Doing-Business in the Information Technology sector.
The two recognitions, according to her, are no doubt fitting anniversary gifts, which will no doubt challenge the organisation to keep up its good work.
The minister commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the support given to the ministry.

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FG Commits To Creating Enabling Environment In Health Sector - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Ali Pate, stated this during the maiden induction of 25 graduating medical doctors of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University ATBU, Bauchi.
Represented by his Senior Special Adviser on Unlocking Healthcare Value Chain, Pate said the government would provide enabling environment for health practitioners to stem Japa syndrome.
According to Pate, when these efforts begin to yield results, it will encourage those who already left the country to come back home to practice and further enhance the sector.
Also speaking, Vice-Chancellor of the university, Muhammad AbdulAziz, commended the Bauchi state government and stakeholders for their supports towards successful take off of the College of Medical Sciences.


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FG Committed To Advancing Education Through Quality Infrastructure- Fashola - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 23, 2022
He spoke in Kano while handing over a 1.06 kilometer internal road, including construction of reinforced concrete culverts and drains at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano.
Fashola was represented by the Federal Controller of Works in Kano State, Yahaya Ali.
Earlier, in his welcome address, the Chief Medical Director, Abdulrahaman Sheshe, expressed happiness at the project executed in the teaching hospital.
He noted that the road networks would allow easy access for patients seeking medical treatment in different parts of the hospital.


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FG Committed To Border Security – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 8, 2019
The Federal Government has reiterated commitmenttowards the improvement of working condition of Officers and men of the NigeriaImmigration Service.
The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola,said this in a statement issued and signed by the Service Public Relation Officer,Sunday James in Abuja.
The Minister stated this at the inauguration of anew state command office complex of the Immigration Service at Uyo, Akwa Ibom.
Aregbesola said that the commitment was evident inthe financial supports given to the Service by the government in its bid tostrengthen internal security and quality of service to Nigerians.
He further stated that government had committedmulti billion Naira to the construction of the technology building at theservice headquarters.
He added that approval of 52 billion naira had alsobeen given for the e-border projects which are deliberate government policies tosecure the country’s borders.
Comptroller General of the Service, MuhammadBabandede, said that to demonstrate its readiness for better service delivery,the Service had also been pursuing holistic reforms covering all areas thataffected its core mandates.

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FG Committed To Eliminating Tropical Diseases In Nigeria – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 14, 2021
The Minister of State for Health, Adeleke Mamora, gave the assurance in Abuja at a round table on eliminating NTDs in the country.
Progress is being made against neglected tropical diseases, a group of 20 diseases that debilitate, disfigure and kill.
About 43 countries have eliminated at least one Neglected Tropical Diseases NTD where 600 million people no longer require treatment.
Mamora said it was vital that everyone worked continuously even in these challenging times.
He noted that NTDs could cause severe debilitating and lifelong physical and visual impairment, whereas they could be eliminated.
He said the ministry would ensure effective execution of NTD programmes, whilst guaranteeing that the best of the ministry’s team was deployed to the NTD unit in the Public Health department.
The chairman House Committee on health added that medical commodities for NTDs expiring at the ministry’s warehouses would no longer be acceptable.

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FG Committed To Implementing Agreement With Labour - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 22, 2024
Director Information, office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen made government’s position known in a statement in Abuja.
He added that the federal government reviewed the commitments at a meeting attended by the Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Nkeiruka Onyejeocha and other dignitaries.
The statement also explained that substantial progress had been made in the agreements including payment of four months from six months wage award promised to the organised labour
The Director said the government had also inaugurated a 37-member Minimum Wage Committee to review and come up with an acceptable and sustainable minimum wage for the Nigerian workers.

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FG Committed To Improving Unity Schools – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 23, 2021
Nwajiuba stated this while declaring open the 2021 Annual General Meeting AGM of Principals of Federal Unity Colleges FUCs held in Gombe.
The Theme of the AGM is, “The Role of Education in Eradicating Social Vices as a Guiding Tool in this Era of Insecurity.”
He stated that the Federal Government, under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, was committed to improving the quality of education generally.
The minister stated that the government’s determination to bring back quality and standard to Federal Unity Colleges across the country resulted to the 2020 announcement of a welfare package for teachers.
He decried the decay in some of the colleges as a result of the negligence by school administrators, warning that punitive measures awaited anyone found guilty of bad behaviour and indiscipline.

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FG Committed To Protecting Nigerians From Harmful Use Of Data- Pantami - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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He stated this in Abuja, at the inauguration of the World Development Report WDR 2021 in Nigeria, with the theme “Leveraging Data to Foster Development: Where does Nigeria Stand”.
The minister, represented by the Director-General, National Information Development Agency, Kashifu Abdullahi, said the government had the responsibility to protect citizens’ data and how it was being used.
He said this had led the government to come up with policies and regulations to safeguard its citizens from the use of digital platforms.
According to him, one of which is the national digital economic policy and strategy for a digital Nigeria.
The minister said the government had a target to achieve 95 per cent digital literacy in Nigeria, which would help the usage of broadband because there was the need to understand the technology to embrace and use it.


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FG Committed To Providing Adequate Logistics, Equipment For Armed Forces -Defence Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 4, 2022
Defence Minister Bashir Magashi gave the assurance during the Armed Forces Special Day at the ongoing 43 Kaduna International Trade Fair.
Magashi, represented by his Special Adviser Technical, Major General Ahmad Jibrin, also reiterated the federal government’s resolve to continue to provide adequate logistics and equipment for the armed forces to perform their assigned tasks.
He noted that global events of the last few of days have reinforced the need to improve local production of defence needs, improving security of supply chains and entering into international collaborations that would ensure transfer of technology.
Also speaking the President of Kaduna Chambers of Commerce Industry, Mines and Agriculture KADCCIMA  Sulieman Aliyu, praised the efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari in building a strong military.


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FG Committed To Resolving 4 Outstanding Issues Regarding Nigeria-Cameroon Border - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 14, 2022
The Director-Genera of the commission Adamu Adaji, told newsmen in Abuja that both Nigeria and Cameroon had been working to demarcate the boundary.
Adaji said Nigeria’s representative at the Nigeria-Cameron Commission under the auspices of the UN was also not in support of the contractor’s action of ”entering” where the agreement was pending.
The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, asked Cameroonian government to make some compromise in its ongoing boundary demarcation issue with Nigeria.
Malami, who was in Yaoundé for the 33 Session of the United Nations Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission.
He assured the Cameroonian government of Nigeria’s readiness to bring lasting solution to the dispute; the areas of dispute between both countries include the Bakassi Peninsula and its dates back to 1994.


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FG Committed To Safe Schools, Increased Literacy Levels – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 13, 2022
Adamu said this at the Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria 2022 Summit, with the theme, “ Toward Safe Schools in Nigeria,” in Lagos.
He explained that the ministry, as the apex body in charge of education in the country, was essentially committed to developing and increasing the level of literacy.
The minister noted that this fits into the larger spectrum of the Federal Government’s commitment/responsibility to the children, youths and the country at large.
He added that said that 31 per cent of Nigerians were illiterate as of 2021, as against 38 per cent in 2015.
He highlighted some of the Federal Government’s effort at addressing the menace to include a collaboration with the United Nations UN Special Envoy for global Education.
According to him, there is also a coalition of Nigerian Business leaders, who initiated the Safe Schools Initiative SSI during the World Economic Forum on Africa WEFA in Abuja in May 2014.

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FG Committed To Tackling Security Challenges, Says Buhari - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 25, 2022
The president spoke at a gala night in Lafia organised in his honour by the Nasarawa State Government as part of activities marking his two-day official visit to the state.
He said that his administration was doing its best to secure the country.
President Buhari expressed delight with the warm reception accorded him by the people and for supporting the ideals of the All Progressives Congress administration.
He commended Governor Abdullahi Sule for ensuring the sustenance of peace and harmonious coexistence among the diverse ethnic groups in the state
The president also thanked the Nasarawa government for its commitment to providing infrastructure, saying the state was complementing Federal Government’s efforts.

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FG Completes 2,465 Housing Units Through National Housing Programme – Official - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 8, 2022
The acting Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Chukwunwike Uzo, made the disclosure in Kano at the commissioning of 76 housing units contributed under the programme at Gama-Gwari, off Jaba-Fanisau Road, Fagge, in Kano.
According to him, For the benefit of Nigerians on this initiative, over 1,200 building contractors have been engaged under phases I, II and III of the programme since the inception in 2016.
He said that during this period, the ministry had undertaken the construction of over 6,000 housing units in 45 sites, out of which 2,465 units have been completed in 35 states and the FCT,” he said.
Uzo further said that over 14,500 and 50,140 direct and indirect jobs respectively have been created during the period under review.
He said that the houses constructed comprised of one bedroom, two and three bedroom semi-detached bungalows.


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FG Completes 263 Ecological Projects- Lai Mohammed - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 20, 2022
Mohammed briefed State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
President Buhari is away in Banjul, The Gambia, for the inauguration of President Adama Barrow, who was re-elected for a second term.
The minister said that the administration had intervened in 291 ecological projects so far.
He said that 14 ecological projects were approved by FEC at the meeting.
Mohammed listed the projects as erosion and flood control works around the Trans-Nkisi Federal Housing Estate at 33 Road, Onitsha, Anambra State from the sum of 939.1 million naira with six months completion period.

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FG Condemns Killing Of Nigerian Pastor In China - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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Chairman/CEO Nigerians in DiasporaCommission, NIDCOM, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has demanded for thorough investigationinto the death of a Nigerian Pastor in China, Joseph Ogenna Nwajueze from theChinese authorities.
In a statement issued in Abuja by theNIDCOM Head of Media, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, stated that the death of theNigerian Pastor based in China was condemnable.
She said the killing of the Anambra -bornpastor, who was living with his wife, Chinwe and four children in China, by thechinese security operatives must be thoroughly investigated and the culpritpunished.
Dabiri-Erewa said that reports had it thatthe late Pastor was doing his legitimate business in China and such, there wasno reason for his unjustifiable killing.
She equally condemned the stigmatization ofNigerians living in China, saying those who were found guilty of the country’slaw should be prosecuted.

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FG Confirms Some Covid-19 Vaccines Expired, Says They Were Not Distributed - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 9, 2021
However, according to the government, the vaccines are said to have been withdrawn and will be destroyed by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC.
In a statement the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, noted that donation of surplus Covid-19 vaccines with short/expiring shelf lives has been of great concern internationally.
Ehanire, however, assured that the government has been handling the situation effectively, upholding the greatest standards for the safety of all Nigerians.
Reacting further to the emerging reports, the Ministry of Health noted that Nigeria has, of late enjoyed the generosity of several, mainly European countries, who have offered doses of Covid-19 vaccines out of their stockpiles, free of charge, through COVAX or AVAT facility.

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FG Considers Fuel Supply Approval To Bakassi Fishermen - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 21, 2022
Regional Coordinator of NMDPRA, South South, George Ene-Ita, said this when the Chairman of Bakassi local government area, Iyadim Iyadim, led a delegation of fishermen to his office.
Ene-Ita said he would write a proposal to the management of NMDPRA with a view of brining all critical stakeholders to deliberate on the matter.
According to him, the cross border smuggling had necessitated the government to prohibit fuel stations located 25km to the border from lifting petroleum product.
Earlier, the Chairman told the Regional Coordinator of NMDPRA that the activities of fishermen had declined due to the measure.
He added that their source of livelihood was fishing, hence the fishermen needed fuel to power their boats.

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FG Considers Taking States To Supreme Court Over VAT - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 7, 2021
Malami said this while answering questions from State House correspondents after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The minister, who explained that his office had not taken any stance outside the scope of the constitution, also disclosed that the Federal Government, may at the Supreme Court challenge states that legislated on the Value Added Tax.
Commenting on the anti-open grazing laws of southern states, Malami said, on the issue of farmers-herders clashes, no position was taken by the Office of the Attorney General outside the scope of the constitutional provisions.


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FG Constructs 46 Roads In Federal Tertiary Institutions – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 14, 2022
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, made this known while handing over the roads constructed at the Federal College of Education, Technical FCET, Gusau.
Fashola, represented by Comptroller, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in Zamfara, Hassan Mohammed, said the President Muhmmadu Buhari-led administration had stepped up to better the lives of the citizens in all sectors of national life.
The minister said that the quality education would be impacted by the quality of infrastructure and the learning environment.
He said that those who were in doubt should listen to some of the feedbacks from students in the school where such interventions had taken place.


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FG Constructs Roads In 46 Tertiary Institutions - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 25, 2022
Fashola said this while inaugurating the rehabilitated and reconstructed link roads at the Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic Kazaure in Jigawa.
The minister, represented by the Federal Controller of Works in Jigawa, Atewolara Oladele, said 29 of the roads were completed in 2021, while 17 others were ready for handover to the institutions.
He said the ministry was attending to 30 roads in various tertiary institutions across the country, making 76, the total number of the road projects.
According to him, about 200 people were directly employed in the road rehabilitation and reconstruction exercise at the polytechnic.
Fashola urged the polytechnic management to ensure proper maintenance of the roads.
In his remarks, Rector of the Polytechnic, Sabo Wada, said the roads were in a deplorable state for long before the intervention by the federal government.


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FG, Covid-19 Is Not Sexually transmitted - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 23, 2020
The Federal Government says there is no scientific prove yet that COVID-19 is sexually transmissible.
National Coordinator, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Sani Aliyu, said this in Abuja at a briefing of the Task Force.
He said though the world was still in the early days of the disease, no research had proven that it could be transmitted through sex.
He cited a test carried out on some women who had tested positive to COVID-19 but whose genital secretions tested negative afterwards.
On the issue of increasing testing rates for the virus across the country, Aliyu said they are looking at every possibility of expanding testing, but there are a lot of bottlenecks.
He added that some of the bottlenecks are less to do with the laboratories, but more to do with the operations efficiency and also the availability of easy sampling sites.


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FG, Coy To Distribute 1m Clean Cookstoves To Curtail Use Of Firewoods - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 22, 2023
Director-General of National Council on Climate Change, Salisu Dahiru, made this known while briefing newsmen on the sidelines of a Sensitisation programme for North-Central women, held in Keffi local government area of Nasarawa State.
He added that the cookstove had been invented and designed in such a way that it would help families save at least 80 percent of all the firewoods that they use in cooking a standard meal for any family.
Dahiru also assured that the Nigerian Government would provide an enabling environment for Atmosfair to ensure that the cookstoves were made available and affordable at all times to the people.
Earlier, the Chief Executive Officer of Atmosfair, Dietrich Brockhagen, explained that the cookstove not only save about 80 percent of cost, but it also has 10 years guarantee.


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FG Declares Holidays For Christmas, New Year Festivities - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 19, 2019
TheFederal Government has declared Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26, December 2019 andWednesday 1, January 2020 as Public Holidays to mark the Christmas, Boxing Dayand the New Year Festivities.
TheMinister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola who made the declaration on behalfof the Federal Government in a statement in Abuja, felicitates with Christiansand Nigerians both at home and abroad on this year’s Christmas and New YearCelebrations.
Healso enjoined Christians to live within the virtues and teachings of JesusChrist, which centered on compassion, patience, peace, humility, righteousnessand love for one another, saying those virtues would guarantee an atmosphere ofpeace and security in the country.The Minister  emphasised that the determination ofGovernment towards ensuring an atmosphere of peace and security would promptForeign Direct Investment thereby, revitalizing the economy and improvingemployment opportunities for the teeming youths in the country. He urged Christians to use the period to pray forNigeria and admonished all citizens to remain focused and determined as well asto continue to persist in displaying love for one another.

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FG Declares Preferred Bidders For Nigerian Airports Concession Programme - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 27, 2022
Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made the announcement when he addressed newsmen in Abuja.
Sirika said that the ministry is in consultation with the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission ICRC and other stakeholders for the fourth airport asset which did not receive bids as at the time of the RFP deadline.
The minister said the process was a multistage process, adding that the final outcome of the NACP is yet to come.

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FG Deploying Agro-Rangers For Improved Security On Farms – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 2, 2022
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Muhammad Abubakar, announced this at a news conference on flooding’s impact on food security in Abuja. He added that the deployment was part of the ongoing activities by the ministry with relevant government agencies to increase food production in the country.
Abubakar said the Government had also restocked the Strategic Food Reserve with 200,000 metric tonnes of assorted food commodities.
The Minister therefore listed other ongoing activities to include the construction and rehabilitation of Mini-Earth Dams and Water, Harvesting Structures to store excess rain water for dry season farming and fisheries in the front-line states.
He stated that Federal Government had distributed mobile multi-purpose grain dryers to cluster farmers, to reduce post-harvest losses in the 774 Local Government Areas across the country.

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FG Deploys More Mini-Grids In Rural Areas - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 26, 2023
The Rural Electrification Agency, REA, in a statement issued in Abuja, said the mini-grids would provide 24/7 electricity in the communities where they were deployed.
Managing Director, REA, Ahmed Salihijo, who just inspected the 200kilowatt peak Solar Hybrid Mini-Grid in Danchitagi Community, Lavun local government area, Niger State, said the facility would cut down the volume fuel purchased by beneficiaries of the community.
He also explained that through the Nigeria Electrification Project Performance-Based Grant initiative, over 80 similar mini-grids had been deployed across the country, ensuring equitable access to electricity.
Salihijo said the mini-grid in Danchitagi Community was built to supply uninterrupted electricity to the area, which hosts about 2,670 people, who were predominantly farmers.


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FG Deports 7 Koreans From Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 17, 2019
The Federal Government says it has deported sevennationals of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea back to their country.
Public Relations’ Officer PRO, Nigeria ImmigrationService NIS, Sunday James, said this in a statement in Abuja.
James, however, did not indicate the reasons for thedeportation.
According to him, they were deported by the order ofthe Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola based on the powers conferred on himby the Immigration Act 2015.
He said that they were deported to their country oforigin with the available flight on October 15th, through Nnamdi AzikiweInternational Airport, Abuja.

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FG Destroys Over 1m Doses Of Expired Astrazeneca Vaccines - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 23, 2021
The destruction carried out in Abuja, according to the government, followed the expiration of the vaccines given to the country by foreign donors.
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, handed the vaccines to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, which in turn, presented them to the Abuja Environmental Protection Agency to destroy at Gosa Dumsite, at Kilometer 2, in Abuja.
The destruction was supervised by the Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, and the Director-General of NAFDAC Mojisola Adeyeye.
Speaking shortly before the destruction, Faisal Shuaib, explained that the action was carried out on behalf of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, comprising also the Federal Ministry of Health, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC.

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FG Develops Risk Mapping Assessment Tool To Reduce Disasters - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 25, 2021
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Faruq, made this known this in Abuja during the monthly seminar organized by the Bureau of Public Reforms, with the theme ‘Humanitarian policies as a tool for effective humanitarian responses and disaster management in Nigeria’.
The minister who was represented by Deputy Director, Disaster Management Abubakar Suleiman said there was urgent need for the setting of DRR governance structures in States and Local Government Areas, as well as enactment of appropriate legislations and plans for effective coordination.
Sadiya said the ministry would continue to engage regulatory agencies, professional institutions and communities to participate in the DRR and promote funding mechanisms and insurance.
The minister added that the ministry would facilitate the training of community first responders and other frontline stakeholders on disaster risk reduction.

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FG Digitises Conditional Cash Transfer, To Pay 23,893 Beneficiaries In FCT - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 27, 2021
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Umar Farouq, made this known during the inauguration of recommencement of Household Uplifting Programme CCT HUP-CCT in Abuja.
Farouq, said President Muhammadu Buhari approved the partnership with the World Bank in 2016 to design and develop a safety nets programme for Nigeria under a broad-based platform of the National Social Safety Nets Project.
One important components of the project is the Household Uplifting-Conditional Cash Transfer HUP-CCT administered under a National Cash Transfer Office NCTO to deliver financial support to poor and vulnerable households nationwide.
According to her, the HUP-CCT beneficiaries are mined from the National Social Register using a standardised eligibility criterion, and granted with a monthly stipend.


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FG Disbursed N785bn To MSMEs In 4 Years – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 11, 2022
Adebayo who stated this at the end of the 14th meeting of the National Council on Industry, Trade and Investment held in Bauchi, said the MSMEs benefitted from the gesture in the past four years.
He said the disbursement were carried through the Bank of Industry BOI between 2019 and 2022.
The minister said the government had revised the MSME policy to drive the growth and competitiveness in the sector, adding that it has successfully increased the nation’s capacity to fund tech-driven MSMEs.
The BOI, he said, had deepened its capital base to 5 billion dollars along with its international partners like the African Export-Import Bank and Credit Suisse, among others.
He said the ministry and the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council had committed towards ensuring that they do not just attract but also protect investments to genuinely benefit Nigeria and its citizens.

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FG Disburses N56bn To MSMES — PERM SEC - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 23, 2021
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Evelyn Ngige, said this at the opening of the 13 Meeting of the National Council on Industry, Trade and Investment on Monday in Ado-Ekiti.
She said the scheme was targeted at strengthening ordinary Nigerians and reducing the poverty index to the nearest minimum.
The summit had as theme, “Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development in Nigeria: The Roles of Stakeholders.’
She added that the ministry had begun full activation of the six private sector-led Special Economic Zones SEZ of Lekki, Enyimba, Funtua, lbom, Kano and Benue.
According to her, the SEZs are working through the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority to ensure the Authority delivers the establishment of three SEZs in 2022.


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FG Discloses Plans To Review APAR Grading System - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 6, 2019
The acting Head of Service of the Federation,  Folasade Yemi-Esan, has said that the’re isongoing efforts to review the current APAR system of grading performance ofcivil servants.
Speaking at the annual lecture of the Council of RetiredFormer Permanent Secretaries CORFEPS, Abuja Chapter, Folasade noted that theplan is targeted at a more result oriented civil service.
She added that the current system would be upgraded tochange the culture of the civil service by making it incorruptible and moreproductive.
Describing CORFEPS as a strategic partner to the FederalGovernment, she further charged members of the body to be unrelenting in offeringtheir wealth of experience to government at all times.
The National Chairperson of CORFEPS, Francesca Emmanuel inher remarks, stated that the council which was created in 2004, is a non-partisan organ aimed at offering services to government and the nation atlarge.
Rewane who recommended steps towards stimulating the economyto impact the citizens positively, expressed the need for urgent measures thatwould address the challenges of inequality in the economy.

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FG Distributes Items To 150 Pupils To Enhance School Enrolment - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 14, 2021
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, stated this during the distribution and inauguration of 2021 National Identification and Enrollment Drive for School Age Children in Sokoto.
Adamu, represented by Director, Basic Education, Federal Ministry of Education, Folake Olatunji-David, said that cash was also distributed to parents of selected pupils as support.
He said that the gesture is part of the strategic plans introduced by the Federal Government to reduce out-of-school children.
He noted that Sokoto was selected in North west Nigeria and that support is being replicated in each of the geopolitical zones in the country.
The minister said that Sokoto was among the states with low enrolment of schools prevalence in the country and commended government efforts in the education sector.
Adamu urged wealthy Nigerians to support less privileged families to adopt one or more out-of-school children, enrol them and sponsor their education.


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FG Distributes Relief Items To Victims Of Windstorm In Abia - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 3, 2022
Presenting the items to the state government, the Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency NEMA Mustapha Ahmed, said the materials would be distributed to victims of the disaster in different communities in the four council areas.
The director-general, represented by Head of NEMA, Owerri Operations Office, Ifeanyi Nnaji, said that the relief materials would be transparently distributed in the presence of all concerned.
He said that it would be jointly distributed to the affected persons by officials of NEMA, Abia State Emergency Management Agency SEMA and representatives of the communities and other relevant stakeholders. He explained that a joint team of assessors from NEMA Owerri Operations Office and SEMA had visited the communities to

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FG Diversifying Economy From Oil, Gas – Official￼ - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 8, 2022
Ngige stated this during the opening ceremony of the 14th meeting of the National Council on Industry, Trade and Investment in Bauchi.
According to her, the meeting could not have come at a better time than now when all efforts are being made by the federal government to further fortify the economy by devising means to diversify it from its present overdependence on the oil and gas sector.
She said the National Council on Industry, Trade and Investment was the highest Policy Advisory Body in the sector, under the chairmanship of the Minister of State of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mariam Katagum.
The Permanent Secretary explained that the main purpose of the Council meeting was to brainstorm, strategise, deliberate and recommend policies and programmes aimed at addressing challenges facing the sector.

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FG Drags Property Developer To Court Over Alleged N11m Electricity Theft - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 22, 2022
The federal government, in the charge, accused Osakwe of tampering with electricity meters which resulted in the loss of 11 million naira revenue.
Officials of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC, caught the defendant allegedly stealing electricity at various properties including his residence, No. 11 Aso drive, Abuja.
According to AEDC officials, the scale of electricity theft by Osakwe at a number of other properties he manages is still under investigation.
In the charge signed by Mohammed Ali, Assistant Director in charge of Prosecution in the Ministry of Justice, Osakwe was said to have interfered with electricity supply an offence contrary to Section 1 of the Miscellaneous Offences Act.

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FG Empowers Farmers In Katsina State With Inputs To Boost Productivity - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 9, 2024
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Temitope Fadeshemi, said in Katsina that the programme was part of efforts by the President Bola Tinubu’s administration toward reducing poverty across the country.
Fadeshemi was represented by Sani Bako-Fago, the State Coordinator, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in Katsina state.
He said that smallholder farmers were not only the backbone of the agricultural sector, but critical to the nation’s prosperity.
He, therefore, urged the farmers to apply the knowledge and skills acquired during the training for the overall objective of the programme.
Also speaking, a representative of the Federal Department Agricultural Extension services, Sanusi Nadada, said that they were in the state to supervise and ensure that only verified and validated farmers benefited from the empowerment programme.

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FG Establishes Pad Bank For NYSC Workforce, Corps Members, Others - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 25, 2022
A statement by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Women Affairs, Eddy Megwa, said Pauline Tallen, the Minister for Women Affairs, unveiled the bank at the NYSC headquarters in Abuja.
She emphasised the need for continuous sensitisation of the girl child and female folk to menstrual and personal hygiene.
She also urged for continuous campaign against gender-based violence and the need to change the negative social norms among the female folk.
Tallen said efforts should be intensified on the sensitisation, enrolment, orientation and education of the girl child.
According to her, menstruation makes the girl child an easy prey for early marriage, sexual violence, teenage pregnancy, school drop-out, trafficking, among others.


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FG Evacuates 2,518 Nigerians From Sudan In 3 Weeks. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, made this known while addressing a news conference on Sunday in Abuja, adding that the
Government had in the last three weeks evacuated Nigerians who indicated interest of returning home.
Ahmed, who described the war situation in Sudan as unfortunate, however added that there was no record of a Nigerian life lost in the conflict.
The Director-General also said the identities of 160 women and children, whose nationality remained uncertain, are being profiled by the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan, to ascertain their real identities.


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FG Evacuates 2,518 Nigerians From Sudan In 3 Weeks - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 15, 2023
Director-General, National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Mustapha Ahmed, made this known while addressing a news conference on Sunday in Abuja, adding that the Government had in the last three weeks evacuated Nigerians who indicated interest of returning home.
Ahmed, who described the war situation in Sudan as unfortunate, however added that there was no record of a Nigerian life lost in the conflict.
The Director-General also said the identities of 160 women and children, whose nationality remained uncertain, are being profiled by the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan, to ascertain their real identities.


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FG Excludes Lagos, Borno, Delta From Cash Transfer As N/West Gets Biggest Share - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 16, 2020
Lagos, Borno and Delta states have been excluded from the National Cash Transfer for COVID-19, while the North West zone gets the biggest share.
The National Cash Transfer Office info-graphics created on April 11th, 2020 and made public by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting, revealed the discrepancies in the cash transfer scheme.
It disclosed that 1,126,211 households were currently benefitting from the conditional cash transfer including, Katsina, Zamfara, Jigawa, Kano and Plateau, while Borno, Delta and Lagos got zero allocation, among others.
Speaking to the newsmen, a public analyst, Bola Bolawole lamented what he described as unequal relationship among states of the country given the lopsidedness in the national transfer scheme.
On his part, Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin said the states being totally locked down received nothing, adding that the country could not continue this way.
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has introduced a scheme to cushion the effect of the lockdown on on its residents.


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FG Finalising “Nigeria Agenda 2050” To Replace Vision 2020 – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 15, 2022
Zainab said this in Abuja, at the 28th Nigerian Economic Summit.
The theme of thepis year’s edition is “2023 and Beyond: Priorities for Shared Prosperity”.
According to the minister, the government has earlier formulated the National Development Plan, 2021-2025 to succeed the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan ERGP, 2017- 2020.
The minister said that resources were being mobilised with less emphasis on oil revenues.
Zainab said that the theme for this year’s Summit was carefully chosen to provide direction for stakeholders to examine the progress the present government had made in delivering the NDP, 2021-2025.
She said that the Nigeria Agenda 2050, which would be inaugurated soon, seeks to increase the country’s per capita Gross Domestic Product GDP to 33,000 dollars.

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FG gives condition to reopen churches, schools, others - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 20, 2020
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to extend the eased lockdown for another two weeks is to try and contain the spread of COVID-19, before the economy is fully reopened.
Mustapha, who is also the chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, stated this during the daily media briefing on Tuesday.
The first phase of the eased lockdown expired on Monday, May 18.
Buhari has now extended it by another two weeks until June 1.
Mustapha called on schools, places of worship, businesses, offices, etc to use this period to plan and adopt new strategies under a COVID-19 era in line with the guidelines.
According to Mustapha, the decision to reopen the economy slowly, is based on “current experiences from different countries and expert advice”.
He said: “Again, I wish to repeat that the decision is not punitive, we share your pains and also share your concerns. However, our future remains in our hands and compliance is one of the keys to opening that future.
“I must also emphasise that the two additional weeks should be utilized by businesses, offices, professional bodies, places of worship, educational institutions, etc awaiting reopening to plan and adopt new strategies under a COVID-19 era in line with the guidelines.
“Further more all, behavioral change is a must for every citizen because COVID 19 has changed the world completely.”
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday night, announced 226 new cases.
It brings the tally in the country to 6,401.


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FG Gives Conditions For Reopening Land Borders - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 5, 2019
The Federal government has given conditions thatECOWAS Member States must adhere to before reopening its border, including thatthe ECOWAS states must respect the Rule of Origin for imports.
The Minister of Foreign Affair, Geoffrey Onyeama,made this known in Abuja while briefing newsmen following an Inter-Ministerialmeeting Preparatory to the Tripartite Anti-Smuggling Committee Meeting ofNigeria, Benin and Niger.
He said that the conditions were spelt out by thecountry’s inter-ministerial committee to protect the nation’s economy bystopping dumping.
Onyeama listed other conditions to include that anyimport coming into Nigeria must retain its original packaging from the countryof origin.
He stated that the standard was for it to beaccepted within the framework of the Economic Trade Liberalisation Scheme thatECOWAS countries have to promote trade amongst members.
Onyeama explained that the value addition of 30 percent was to avoid situations where countries outside the ECOWAS region wouldmerely export goods into ECOWAS member states, repackage as coming from ECOWASmember states with little value addition and exported to Nigeria.

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FG Grants Licences To NNPCL, Belema For Crude Export Terminals - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 14, 2023
The licences were approved and issued to the companies in Abuja by Authority Chief Executive ACE, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority NMDPRA Farouk Ahmed.
The NNPCL Exploration and Production Ltd. operates Utapate Export Terminal, located in Akwa Ibom State while the Belema Sweet Export Terminal Ltd is located in Rivers State.
They are the first set of licences to establish crude oil terminals, sealed and granted by the NMDPRA.
Speaking at the signing of the Terminal Establishment Licences, Ahmed said the development would add more than four million barrels capacity to Nigeria’s Export Storage.
He said the issuance of the licences were pursuant to the provisions of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA 2021) which stipulated new provisions for the establishment of new export terminals.


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FG Hands Over 1,000 Houses To Borno For IDPS - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 3, 2021
The houses constructed through the North East Development Commission NEDC were part of the 10,000 Housing Scheme initiated by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Speaking at the ceremony, NEDC’s Manging Director, Mohammed Alkali, said that President Buhari in 2019 approved mass housing project under the Special Presidential Intervention in Borno SPIB.
SPIB is designed to provide decent accommodation to ameliorate the housing difficulties being experienced by displaced communities in Borno.
In her remarks, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government to provide shelter and empowerment opportunities for the rural populace through various programmes.

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FG Hands Over 1,000 Houses To Borno For IDPS - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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The houses constructed through the North East Development
Commission NEDC were part of the 10,000 Housing Scheme initiated
by President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Speaking at the ceremony, NEDC’s Manging Director, Mohammed
Alkali, said that President Buhari in 2019 approved mass housing project
under the Special Presidential Intervention in Borno SPIB.
SPIB is designed to provide decent accommodation to ameliorate the
housing difficulties being experienced by displaced communities in
Borno.
In her remarks, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management
and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, reiterated the
commitment of the Federal Government to provide shelter and
empowerment opportunities for the rural populace through various
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FG Hands Over 228 Hectares Gari Irrigation Project To Jigawa, Kano Farmers - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 3, 2022
This is contained in a statement by the Director, Irrigation and Drainage, Ministry of Water Resources Oyeronke Oluniyi, in Abuja.
She said the project was part of government’s food security and job creation efforts.
Oluniyi said that the irrigation project, delivered to the farmers in parts was in its sixth phase, following government’s decision to complete all projects for maximum benefits.
She said the ministry, through its mandate in irrigated agriculture had aligned with the present administration’s vision to diversify the nation’s economy and lift as many people out of poverty before 2030.


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FG Harnessing Technological Innovations To Boost Food Security, Export – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 10, 2021
Abubakar said this at the North East regional validation exercise of the draft National Agricultural Technology and Innovation Policy NATIP 2022-2025 in Gombe.
He said the policy would ensure food and nutrition security as well as promote export of agricultural produce, create jobs and boost wealth creation for the country.
Represented by Zonal Director, North East, Umaru Mohammed, the minister stated that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari was committed to strengthening the country’s capacity to feed its citizens.
According to him, the federal government, through the agric ministry, organised NATIP to facilitate a new policy framework to succeed the Agricultural Promotion Policy APP 2016-2020.

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FG Harps On Effective RDI Coordination For Sustainable Development - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 26, 2024
Nnaji made the call, in Abuja at the opening of the National Research, Development, and Innovation Coordination Summit.
The conference was organised by Research for Impact Knowledge Economy and Sustainable Development in collaboration with the West and Central African Research and Education Network.
Nnaji said that the government was poised to reshape the future of the country by unleashing potential through unified Research, Development and Innovation coordination.
He said that the conference was a pathway to redefine and reposition Nigeria on the global map of innovation, science, and technology.
According to him, this can be achieved by implementing a three-pronged approach which includes strengthening institutional frameworks, fostering public-private partnerships and investing in human capital.


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FG Has Taken Charge Of Nigeria Waterways Security- Sambo￼ - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 8, 2022
Sambo said this during the 2nd Edition of the President Muhammadu Buhari PMB Administration Scorecard Series 2015-2023 in Abuja.
He said since the inauguration of the project in June 2021, the country had not recorded any case of piracy in its maritime domain.
According to the Minister, the President Buhari administration also assented to the Anti-Piracy Bill, adding that it is an important legislation which has defiled several administrations before 2015.
He said the legislation would prevent and suppress piracy, armed robbery and any other unlawful act against a ship, aircraft, and any other maritime traffic, including fixed and floating platforms.
He further said that the bill had opened the doorway for the administration of justice for piracy and other maritime offences in the country.


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FG II Complete Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Road May – Fashola - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 18, 2023
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji-Fashola, stated this while on pre-inauguration inspection of the highway. The section of the highway is part of the 375.4 Kilometre Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano project awarded during the first tenure of the Buhari administration.
He added that the section would be completed and inaugurated before President Muhammadu Buhari leaves office in May. The reconstruction of Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano carriageway is divided into three sections.
Fashola noted that while the second and third sections covering 210 kilometres was almost completed, Section one, from Abuja to Kaduna, will be left for the incoming administration to undertake.
Similarly, the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari disclosed that the second Niger Bridge is also ready for inauguration. He also described it as the third legacy project of the Buhari administration.


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FG In Uganda Over Direct Air Connectivity - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 3, 2023
According to a statement, in Abuja, by the Special Assistant to Nigeria’s Minister on Public Affairs, James Odaudu, the meeting focused on the review of subsisting Bilateral Air Services Agreement BASA between both countries, which was signed in 2002 and reviewed in 2005.
It also focused on how to give the necessary administrative and technical support to the Memorandum of Understanding MoU agreed during the last International Civil Aviation Negotiation ICAN Event which held in Abuja from 5th to 9th December, 2022.
The Minister of Works and Transport of Uganda, Edward Katumba Kamala who received the delegation, however, appreciated Sirika for his physical presence, stating that the visit would afford both Ministers opportunities to provide the necessary political leadership that would facilitate the implementation of the Agreements reached during the meeting.

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FG Inaugurates 12-Man Inter-Ministerial Committee On Nigeria At 61 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 27, 2021
Inaugurating the committee, in Abuja the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said that the idea behind the early plan was to begin demonstration in visible terms to achieve the best result.
The committee under the Chairmanship of Mustapha has Ministers of Information, Interior, Federal Capital Territory, Investments, Trade and Industry, and Health, as well as the Inspector-General of Police, Director-General DSS, as members.
The proposed activities for the 61 anniversary, according to Mustapha include, concluding activities for Nigeria’s 60 anniversary, which according to him are, Church Service on Sunday, September 26 and Jumm’at Prayers on Friday, October 1 and Award Night slated for Sunday, October 3.
Also, Minister of Investments, Trade and Industry, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, and head of the sub-committee, highlighted that the committee had already formed its members to make the celebration a huge success.


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FG Inaugurates $200m World Bank-Backed Ideas Project - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 13, 2022
World Bank is supporting the IDEAS Project in each of the participating state with the sum of 200 million dollars credit facility for its smooth implementation.
The project has four components with the core objective of enhancing the capacity of the Nigerian skills development system to produce relevant skills for the formal and informal sectors.
The first component aims to provide grant for the rehabilitation and upgrading of Federal and State Technical Colleges to transform their operational models into public private partnerships, in which industry partners assume prominent role in institutional governance, management and planning, training and service delivery.
The second component will deliver a comprehensive capacity development intervention package for the improvement and modernization of informal apprenticeships to selected informal sector clusters.

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FG Inaugurates Committee For Metals Industry Devt - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 4, 2020
The Federal Government has inaugurated a MinisterialTechnical Committee on the formulation of a framework for sustainabledevelopment and growth of the metals industry as part of the on-going effortsto diversify the economy.
Inaugurating the committee members in his office,the Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, Uchechukwu Ogah, describedthe industry as the bedrock of industrialisation and the key ingredient forsustainable growth and development of any nation.
The minister, represented by Director, Artisanal andSmall – Scale Mining Department, Patrick Ojeka, said virtually everything usetoday either has components of metals or produced using metallic equipment.


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FG Inaugurates Committee To Employ 774,000 Nigerians - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 30, 2020
The Minister of State, Labour and Employment and Supervising Minister of the National Directorate of Employment, NDE  Festus Keyamo has inaugurated the Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee in Abuja on the Federal Government’s Special Public Works Program designed to employ 1000 persons from each of the 774 local government areas of the federation.
The committee which is to be chaired by the Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment, Mohammed Nasir Ladan Argungu, is to engage 774,000 Nigerians for the Special Public Works, SPW programme.
Under the programme, 1,000 unemployed persons will be selected from each local government area across the 36 states and the FCT for a period of three months; October to December 2020 and would be paid 20,000 naira monthly allowance.
Argungu who explained that the President is targeting ordinary Nigerians,   said he would resign should any political office holder tried to hijack the programme.


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FG Inaugurates Committee To Improve Services Of Forestry Research Institute - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 11, 2022
Director-General, BPE, Alex Okoh, said this in a statement signed by Chidi Ibeh, Head, Public Communications, BPE, in Abuja.
Okoh who inaugurated the seven-man committee said the committee would help enhance the potential of FRIN to deliver on its mandate.
He said the Projects Reform and Infrastructural Development of the Institute would be executed through Public Private Partnership PPP.
Okoh said that the bureau was committed to partnering the institute for the successful execution of the following projects through PPP transactions:


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FG Inaugurates Enugu Immigration Command HQS - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 13, 2021
Minister of Interior Rauf Aregbesola has inaugurated the Nigerian Immigration Service NIS Enugu State Command Office Complex.
The Media Adviser to the minister, Sola Fasure announced this in a statement in Abuja.
According to Fasure, the minister recalled how the office complex was attacked and damaged by arsonists during the #ENDSARS protest.
Aregbesola, however, expressed delight that the complex was being inaugurated after being rebuilt with the assistance of some illustrious citizens of the state.
He noted that, the minimum facility you can provide for a man who bears arms is not only a place of safety, but that where his best capacity can be easily harnessed.
The minister noted further that the various infrastructure development and upgrade in the four agencies in the Ministry of Interior would go a long way in enhancing their productivity.


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FG Inaugurates Road, Gully Erosion Intervention Project At UNIBEN - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 19, 2023
In a speech at the ceremony in Benin, the Minister, Babatunde Fashola, said the infrastructure gap in the country was steadily being bridged and had reached the schools.
Fashola, who was represented by the Federal Controller of Works in Edo, Razaq Aransiola, said the quality of education would be impacted by the quality of learning environment from the improved infrastructure in the institutions.
He said that 18 additional roads were ready to be handed over and that 19 were receiving attention in other institutions across the country, bringing the number to 83.
Earlier in an address of welcome, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Lilian Salami, thanked the State and Federal Governments for their laudable intervention projects in the institution.

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FG Inaugurates Technology To Transform Livestock Sector - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 17, 2022
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammad Abubakar, said the system is aimed to generate comprehensive data on livestock for proper planning.
Abubakar said the technology would help to address security issues plaguing the livestock sector such as cattle rustling, herder/pastoralist conflict among others.
He said that the ministry had been collaborating and would continue to partner with a wide range of stakeholders, to ensure that the technology was internationally recognised.
The minister said that the partnership would ensure that the system was efficient and effective to address the livestock data needs of the country.

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FG Inaugurates Technology To Transform Livestock Sector - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 17, 2022
Speaking on the occasion, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mohammad Abubakar, said the system is aimed to generate comprehensive data on livestock for proper planning.
Abubakar said the technology would help to address security issues plaguing the livestock sector such as cattle rustling, herder/pastoralist conflict among others.
He said that the ministry had been collaborating and would continue to partner with a wide range of stakeholders, to ensure that the technology was internationally recognised.
The minister said that the partnership would ensure that the system was efficient and effective to address the livestock data needs of the country.


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FG Inaugurates Trade Information Portal - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 29, 2022
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, described the portal as an outcome of collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, with support from the European Union, EU, and the German Technical Cooperation.
The minister said that the online information portal, which clearly describes import, export and transit procedures, was a great step toward the enhancement of transparency, predictability and a mechanism for trade facilitation reforms in Nigeria.

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FG Inaugurates Trade Information Portal - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 29, 2022
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, described the portal as an outcome of collaboration with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD, with support from the European Union, EU, and the German Technical Cooperation.
The minister said that the online information portal, which clearly describes import, export and transit procedures, was a great step toward the enhancement of    transparency, predictability and a mechanism for trade facilitation reforms in Nigeria.


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FG Intervenes In Internal Road Network Of 46 Institutions – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 30, 2022
Fashola said this in Ukana in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom at   the inauguration and handing over of 1.1 kilometer internal road constructed by the Federal Government to the Federal Polytechnic, Ukana.
The minister, who was represented by Federal Controller of Works, in Akwa Ibom,  Kayode Akinwande, said the infrastructure needs  of tertiary  institutions were steadily being met by a gradual process of repairs, renewal and construction on major highways and it had now reached the schools.
He said the quality of infrastructure had improved the quality of education with positive impact on students.
Fashola said that during the construction of the road, 200 indirect and 50 direct people were employed in the process contributing to the job creation initiative of the Federal Government and appealed to the school to make good use of the facilty.


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FG Is Not In A Hurry To Open Churches, Mosques - PTF - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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The Federal Government on Tuesday said religious worship centres have been identified as a major potential avenue for the spread of the. COVID-19 pendemic.
The government, through the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 stated this while reeling out guidelines for the reopening of churches and mosques in the country.
While reeling out the guidelines, the National Coordinator of the PTF, Dr. Aliyu Sani, said Nigerians above the age of 55 are advised to stay in their homes to worship and not go to churches or mosques, as the nation reopens religious centres after they were closed down for months in the aftermath of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The task force added that federal government informed the decision not to be in a hurry to reopen the worship centers.
According to Sani, the guidelines released are for the various state governments in the country to follow as the baseline for their specific modalities for the reopening of churches and mosques.
The PTF also asked those with health conditions such as diabetes, cancer, HIV, among others to stay away from worship centers, noting that the advice was necessary because places of worship have been recognised as a major avenue of potential spread of Coronavirus.
According to the PTF, the guidelines were released for states to follow in discussions with religious leaders before the reopening of churches and mosques for worshippers, adding that the protocols made available would be the baseline which the states are not expected to go below while firming up agreement with religious leaders.


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FG, Korean Govt. Partner On E-Governance Training For Nigerian, Cameroonian Officials - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 19, 2021
A Korean international cooperation agency, said in a statement today that a workshop held in Abuja with representatives from both countries provided an avenue for the sharing of experiences and the way forward.
The workshop, funded by the Korean government through its grant and aid agency, is part of activities to advance e-governance in both countries.
Electronic governance or e-governance is the application of Information Technology IT for delivering government services, exchange of information, communication transactions, integration of various stand-alone systems from government to citizens.
Speaking at the event, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, highlighted Korean international cooperation agency’s contributions to the development and implementation of e-governance in Nigeria.
Represented by Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Pantami added that it was notable to have the Cameroonian delegation visit Nigeria on the e-governance knowledge exchange programme.

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FG Lauds UNFPA For Driving Process For Roadmap On GBV In North East - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 24, 2022
The Women Affairs Minister, Pauline Tallen, made the commendation in Maiduguri at a worshop organised by UNFPA to develop Call to Action Initiative on protection from GBV in emergencies.
Tallen also appreciated the government of Denmark as the global chair of the Call to Action for the Development of North East Nigeria Roadmap 2022-2025 with support from Norwegian Government.
The Borno Commissioner for Women Affairs, Zuwaira Gambo, said that to address the prevalence of GBV, the state government in partnership with humanitarian community established the GBV Sub-Sector Working Group that plays key role in GBV risk mitigation response.
In a message, the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission NHRC Tony Ojukwu, assured the commitment of the commission to the fight against GBV.


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FG To Collaborate With Republic Of Korea In Tackling Unemployment - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 23, 2022
While giving an update on the vaccination exercise, the government said the country has so far taken delivery of 64 million 113 hundred 760 doses of COVID-19 vaccines since vaccination began and has administered 24.8 million doses.
Speaking at the launch of the initiative, the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire said as at the end January 2022, the country had vaccinated 20 million of her eligible population.
He commended National Health Care Development Agency NPHCDA efforts to expand COVID-19 vaccination sites in the country which has helped to fast track the campaign.
Ehanire said primary healthcare centres would have helped greatly in administering the COVID19 vaccine if they were readily available across the country.
He therefore solicited the assistance of development partners to redirect efforts towards establishing primary healthcare centres in the rural areas.

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FG Launches Minerals Resource Software For Investors. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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While speaking during the launch ceremony, the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, expressed delight over the move, while stating that the support system will enhance the ease of doing business in the solid minerals sector.
He explained that the portal served as a one-stop shop for investors and intending investors, to get all necessary information to guide them in making informed investment decisions.
Alake also said, that his administration is currently working on a financial capacity program for local investors who do not have the means, to fully commit to minerals exploration in Nigeria.


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FG Launches National Egg Production Scheme In Kogi - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 23, 2021
While speaking at the inauguration in Lokoja, the National Poultry Desk Officer, Department of Animal and Husbandry Services of the ministry, Vivian Ibe, said the scheme was aimed at creating awareness and boosting egg productions nationwide.
She explained that the essence of the scheme was to create awareness aimed at strengthening egg production, its marketing and utilisation capacity of poultry products in Nigeria.
The desk officer noted that the national egg production scheme was a five-year programme with its target to promote economic development, income, livestock and job opportunity in Nigeria.
Also speaking, the state Coordinator of Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Shekamang Ayuba, expressed hope that the national egg production scheme would impact positively on agriculturists and farmers in the state.

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FG Launches National Noma Control Policy Document - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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TheFederal Ministry of Health has joined partners and representatives from NigerRepublic, Benin, Madagascar and others to launch the National Noma ControlPolicy document approved at the 2019 National Council on Health.
TheMinister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, commemorated the third edition of theNational Noma Day with launch of the document.
TheNational Noma Day is held annually to raise awareness on the non-contagiousdisease that affects tissues of the face and cause deformities.
Nigeriamarked the day on November 20th since 2017, as measure adopted to eliminate thedisease.
Noma,otherwise known as Cancrum Oris, is a fulminating, gangrenous infection of thesoft tissue around the mouth, predominantly affecting younger persons with poororal hygiene and predisposing them to serious illness.
Ehaniresaid that the ministry worked in collaboration with the World HealthOrganisation WHO and other stakeholders to develop the National Noma PolicyDocument and the Triennial Noma Control Action Plan 2019 to 2021.

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FG Launches Road Map On Ageing 2022-2032, Action Plan 2021-2025 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 1, 2023
Director-General of NSCC, Emem Omokaro, in her welcome address, said the occasion was a milestone for the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development and the NSCC respectively.
According to her, it is also an undeniable date with legacy for the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
She added that it also framed programmes and services that promote socially and economically active, secured and healthy ageing population.
Omokaro stressed that the project activities are admitted in the National Development Plan 2021to 2025 and the continuing action plan for the implementation of the 2030 SDGs.

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FG Making Progress On Speedy Completion Of Power Projects —Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 28, 2021
Aliyu said this in a statement in Abuja, to mark his 50 days in office as the minister of power.
The minister listed some of the projects to include: The Kashimbilla 40 MW Power Station in Taraba State which had already begun generating power for the National Grid.
He also noted that the Gurara phase 2 being developed in partnership with the Ministry of Water Resources would soon deliver 30 megawatts to the grid.
The minister also cited the Dadin Kowa 40 megawatts power station that had also started generating power for the National Grid, under a concession with a private investor.
Aliyu revealed that the outstanding regulatory and power purchase agreement issues were also being resolved.
Speaking on the Mambilla hydroelectric power project, which was contracted in 2017, the minister said that discussions were being intensified so that all issues preventing the full take off of the project are resolved soon.

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FG, Manufacturers Peg Price Of Bag Of Cement At N7,000-N8,000 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 20, 2024
David Umahi made this known to newsmen after a protracted meeting with major cement manufacturers in the country on Monday in Abuja.
The Cement Manufacturers came to an agreement to sell a 50kg bag of cement at a retail price of between 7,000 and 8,000 naira, depending on the location.
However, the manufacturers stated that the price drop from the current market price would depend on the fulfilment of certain government intervention to ameliorate critical challenges faced in the industry.
The meeting was against the backdrop of the astronomical increase in the price of the commodity to about 13,000 naira in several retail stores in the Federal Capital Territory, Enugu and other parts of the country.
The meeting, called by President Bola Tinubu, to find a lasting solution to the unreasonable increase, had Umahi lamenting that the price was abnormal and detrimental to economic prosperity sought after by the current administration.

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FG May Lose N7.58tn To Contract Disputes Damages - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 12, 2022
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, announced that the Government had agreed to pay a foreign investor 496 million dollars about 212.3 billion naira, using the official exchange rate of 428 naira per dollar to settle a long-standing 5.26 billion dollars contractual dispute.
The government also added that the mediation proceedings were under the Alternative Dispute Resolution framework of the International Chamber of Commerce led by Phillip Howell-Richardson.
According to the government, the settlement agreement came into effect on 19 August 2022.

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FG Moves To Apply Twitter Operational Conditions To Other Platforms - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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January 26, 2022
Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed made this known in Cairo at a meeting with his counterpart, Egypt Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Amir Talaat.
He said Nigeria was amending its National Broadcasting Act and Broadcasting Code to ensure that all online platforms operating in the country must comply with stipulated conditions.
The meeting was on the sidelines of a bilateral discussion with Africa Export Import Bank, AFREXIMBANK on how Nigeria can access funding to support its growing creative industry.
It would be recalled that the Minister had led some private sector stakeholders involved in Digital Switch Over, DSO, to AFREXIMBANK to assist them on how they can source fund to complete the wholly private sector financially driven project.
Also speaking, the Egyptian Minister said his country had similar challenges in the area of dissemination of policies and programmes of government. Talaat.said he was a recent victim of fake news report which was very devastating to him.

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FG Moves To End Dog- Mediated Human Rabies By 2030 - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 13, 2022
Speaking at a workshop in Abuja, to validate a National Strategic Plan for Elimination  of Dog Mediated Human Rabies in Nigeria, Maimuna Habib, the Chief Veterinary Officer of Nigeria, said the target was a global agenda.
Habib, who is also the Director of Veterinary and Pest  Control Services, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that rabies was one of the deadliest zoonosis in the world.
She was represented by Chief Veterinary Officer, Animal Health Division Peter Umanah.
She said that the virus was caused by neurotropic RNA virus of the genus Lyssavirus.
Habib said that dogs were the main reservoir of the diseases and remained the commonest 99 per cent means of transmission to humans. Also, Deputy Project Director, Risk Communication Breakthrough ACTION Nigeria BA-N, Olayinka Umar Farouk, said the scourge of rabies in Nigeria is one that is preventable.


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FG Moves To Halt Crude Export In Natural State - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 29, 2020
The Federal Government is putting plans in motion to implement ways to halt the export of crude oil in its natural state.
This, the government says will be done through methanol production which the country would benefit from.
Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu who made this known said the Federal Government need to engage in methanol production, has pushed it to source for funds for the implementation of the policy.
He said that apart from growing the economy through methanol production, the government will be able to provide millions of jobs, which will show the world how great Nigeria is.
Onu said this in Abuja, during the final meeting of the cabinet committee set up to source funds for the implementation of the national policy on methanol fuel production.


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FG Moves To Rescue Nigerian Students Still Trapped In Ukraine - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 7, 2022
Meanwhile, a new batch of 306 Nigerians returned home from war-ravaged Ukraine.
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NiDCOM, stated that they arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made contact in the Ukraine north east city of Sumy on quick evacuation of Nigeria students stuck in the region.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama on his Twitter handle said that he has spoken to Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmitro Kuleba over the possibility of the evacuation of Nigerian students.
Similar telephone conversation was made between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama and the President of Nigerian Students Union, Fehintola Damilola Moses.


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FG Moves To Tackle Neonatal Mortality By Launching Operational Guidelines – Minister - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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November 26, 2021
Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, made this known in Abuja during the commemoration of the 2021 World Prematurity Day held in collaboration with Save the Children International SCI and other NGOs.
Ehanire said that the launch of the operational guideline became imperative because there was a deficit of platforms for talking to people.
According to him, the theme for this year’s Prematurity Day: “Zero separation: act now! Keep parents and babies born too soon together’’, addresses the immediate need of prematurely born babies.
He said that it also closed premium on zero separation of babies born too soon away from their parents and this would enhance the chances of premature to survive and thrive.
He explained that the term premature referred to babies born sooner than the expected delivery date adding that the guidelines would set additional standards for new-born care in Nigeria.
Also launched was the National Guidelines for Comprehensive New-born Care Training Manual.

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FG Moves To Train 250,000 Persons On Data Privacy, Protection - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 1, 2023
National Commissioner of the Nigeria Data Protection Bureau, NDPB Vincent Olatunji, made this known during a capacity building workshop for data protection officers in the public sector, in Abuja.
He said that there is need for data protection officers operating in the public sector to understand the difference between data security and data privacy as they carry out their duties.
On his part, the Head, Legal Enforcement and Regulations, NDPB, Babatunde Bamigboye, explained that the training is part of its activities to commemorate this year’s Data Privacy Day, celebrated yearly on January 28.


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FG: NDDC Board Inauguration, Audit Report Implementation, Work In Progress - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 22, 2022
But the government has stated that in whatever it was doing, the public interest remains its watchword.
In separate reactions, the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, said the inauguration of the NDDC board and forensic audit report would be carried out.
Responding the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, stated that the issue of inaugurating the board of the NDDC was a work in progress which involves input from relevant stakeholders in the country.
Malami, who spoke through his media aide, Umar Gwandu, stated that concerned individuals and organisations were working hard to ensure that the board that would be put in place not only meets the expectations of stakeholders, but would serve the overall interest of the society.

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FG, Netherland To Intensify Efforts At Curbing Environmental Hazards In Nigeria - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 20, 2022
This was arrived at during a courtesy when the Netherland Ambassador to Nigeria, Harry van Dijk, paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, in Abuja.
Dijk congratulated Abdullahi on his appointment as minister of environment, following his assumption of office in April.
On his part, Abdullahi assured that his ministry would execute agreements and the MoUs signed in the past.


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FG, NGOS Decry Violence, Harmful Practices Against Girl-Child In Spite Of Extant Laws - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 25, 2021
The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, while describing Nigeria as one with high rate of Female Genital Mutilation FGM cases, said such harmful practice persists in spite of a number of reforms and laws to curb the trend.
She said violence and harmful practices endanger the lives of women and girls, hence the need for all states of the federation to domesticate laws and implement them to serve as deterrent and eliminate it in totality.
According to her, in spite of government and partners’ positive interventions, high and community level advocacy, capacity building of circumcisers, including provision of alternate income for circumcisers, the practice of FGM still persists.
These stakeholders expressed their divergent views in separate interviews with Newsmen on the sidelines of various events recently held to commemorate the 2021 International Day of the Girl-Child in Abuja, an annual occasion marked on October 11 to raise awareness on challenges of the girl-child.

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FG, NSPRI Train ADP Staff On Management Of Post Harvest Losses - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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October 22, 2021
The four-day training programme, which began on Wednesday in Sapele, aimed to equip farmers with requisite knowledge on how to manage post harvest losses in the region.
In her opening remarks,  the Executive Director, NSPRI, Patricia Pessu, said that the training programme  was aimed at stepping down knowledge on post harvest management, through the ADP staff, to rural farmers, noting that post harvest losses had a significant effect on the economy.
She said that about 30 per cent of grains, such as maize, sorghum, millet, cowpea and  root and tuber crops such as yam, cassava and potatoes were lost post harvest in the country.

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FG Orders Vice Chancellors To Reopen Schools - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 26, 2022
This is contained in a letter signed by the Director, Finance and Accounts of National Universities Commission, NUC Sam Onazi, on behalf of the Executive Secretary of the commission, Abubakar Rasheed in Abuja.
The letter which was addressed to all vice-chancellors; Pro-Chancellors and chairmen of governing councils of federal universities, called on them to re-open the universities.
It will be recall that ASUU had embarked on strike since February 14 to press home the demand for improved funding for universities, a review of salaries for lecturers, among other issues.
Several meetings between ASUU and the Federal Government have ended in deadlock due to non- agreement in the demands
The federal government went to court to challenge the strike but the union insisted it would not resume but however appeal the court’s ruling.

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FG Overrules ASUU’s Demand For Time To Develop IPPIS Alternative - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 23, 2020
The Academic Staff Union ofUniversities, ASUU warning strike may worsen as the Federal Government hasrejected the union’s demand for 18 months to develop its alternative paymentapplication, the University Transparency and Accountability System, UTAS as itspreferred mode for the payment of salaries of academic staff.
It was gathered that the negotiationbetween the two parties will continue today, Monday in Abuja.
ASUU had rejected the FederalGovernment’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, PPIS thatlead to the suspension of the payment of their salaries.
The Union had embarked on a two-weekwarning strike over the refusal of government to pay those that did not enrollon the payment platform, before the directives to close all tertiaryinstitutions and unity colleges over the outbreak of COVID-19.
ASUU President, Biodun Ogunyemi, wasquoted by a member of the government’s negotiating team, as saying that thesoftware for UTAS is yet to be fully developed and that if given 18 months, itwill be able to develop and perfect the payment platform.


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FG Palliatives: Nigeria Won’t Be On Right Lane Even If Tinubu Distributes N100,000 – Ramalan. - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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July 24, 2023
Ramalan, who spoke in Abuja, the Federal capital, explained that Nigeria’s economic problem was beyond distributing palliatives to the people, especially to mitigate the effect of the fuel subsidy removal.
He argued that the earlier proposed palliatives to cushion the effect of the subsidy removal could not solve the problems of many Nigerians suffering with the astronomical rise in the prices of commodities and cost of living.
The Elder Statesman, however, expressed his belief that Nigeria would not surmount the problems even if Tinubu distributes N100, 000 to every family.
He reiterated that the proceeds generated from the reduced cost of governance should be channeled to infrastructure and the country’s food security, human security, mass transport, education and health system.


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FG Partners Oil Logistics Company On Regulation, Standards - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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May 20, 2022
Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authourity NMDPRA, says it will partner Oil Trading and Logistics OTL Africa Downstream to ensure effective regulation and standards in the downstream oil and gas industry.
The Authourity Chief Executive, Farouk Ahmed, said this when the Advisory Board of OTL, led by Mumuni Dagazau, paid him a visit in Abuja.
On the forthcoming OTL Africa Downstream annual event, Ahmed assured that the authority would take advantage of it and ensure its presence.
Earlier, Dagazau, who represented the OTL board chairman, Tunji Oyebanji, called for partnership between the OTL and the Authority, adding that their collaboration would benefit both parties.


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FG Partners WHO On Electronic Waste Exposure On Child, Public Health - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 16, 2021
This was the thrust of the ongoing National Stakeholders’ Workshop on Prevention of Impact of Electronic Waste on Child Health in Abuja.
Minister of Health Osagie Ehanire, called for more political commitment from stakeholders towards reversing this trend, saying the country had enough laws and policies to curb the negative impact of electronic waste management.
Ehanire, who was represented by Climate Change and Environmental Health, Shuaibu Bonji, Director, said obsolete electronic equipment was becoming a worldwide problem.
National Consultant, Public Health and Environment, representing WHO Nigeria Country Representative, Edwin Isotu-Edeh, said the meeting would raise awareness on the magnitude of e-waste exposure to human and health.

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FG Partners WHO To Develop Robust National Biosecurity Policy – DG - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 18, 2021
Director General of the agency Rufus Ebegba made this in Abuja, at the second national review meeting of the draft National Biosecurity Policy and Action Plan.
Ebegba, while commending the WHO for supporting the agency from the outset, noted that the Federal Government considered the issue of a national biosecurity policy as a major national assignment.
He also explained that the agency will ensure that the review process, under the Federal Ministry of Environment, will have the Federal Executive Council taking a critical look at it and taking a decision.
The Director General therefore, urged stakeholders to see the national biosecurity policy as a major national assignment that would go a long way to minimize the risks of biological threats, improve human health, agriculture and environment.
In his remark, WHO representative, Philip Zorto, expressed the hope that before the end of the year, the policy document would be completed and presented to the Federal Executive Council. He also called on stakeholders to work together to ensure the realisation of the ultimate goal of making the document a working one, so as to be internationally acceptable.


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FG Pays CCT To 11,617 Vulnerable People In Imo - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 7, 2021
The beneficiaries were drawn from the national social register of
National Social Safety-Net Coordinating Office NASSCO, a social
investment program under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs,
Disaster Management and Social Development.
The beneficiaries were enlisted from nine pilot Local Governments in
Imo, with no fewer than 11,617 beneficiaries.
The beneficiaries were given N20, 000 each to clear the backlog of four
months arrears of 2020.
Special Adviser to Governor Hope Uzodimma on Sustainable
Development Goal and Humanitarian Services Christina Ude after
inspecting the program, expressed satisfaction with the success and
compliance recorded.
Ude, also the focal person of the Social Intervention Program SIP in Imo,
advised the beneficiaries to be judicious and reasonable, while investing
the money in order to meet the programmer’s aim of taking the
vulnerable people out of poverty.

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